While many Christians heretically claiming to be born again normally agrilly rebut our estimates that perhaps only about 2% of all Christians claiming to be born again are actually born again, our estimates are however not only based on the percentage of preachers preaching heresies about what constitutes the True born again experience and also on the percentage of Christians with a heretic understanding of what constitutes the True or biblical born again experience, our estimates are also clearly in tune with the Bible’s prophetic predictions that only a few people would be saved by God.
13 “Enter through the narrow Door. For wide is the door and wide is the way that leads to Eternal Destruction or Eternal Punishment and many shall enter through it (to Eternal Punishment). 14 But narrow is the Door and narrow is the Way that leads to Eternal Life and only a few shall find it. Matthew 7:13-14
23 Then someone asked Jesus saying, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?”And He said (to the crowd), 24 “Strive to enter (now) through the narrow Door (to Eternal Life) for I reveal to you that many shall (afterwards) strive to enter (through that Door) but they shall not be able to enter . 25 For once the King of the House gets up and shuts the Door, you (the wicked who shall be left outside) shall stand outside (His House) knocking and pleading saying, “Lord, open the Door for us.” But He shall answer you saying, “I don’t know you or where you are from.” Luke 13:23-25.
These verses are not only showing us that a few people shall be Truly saved, scriptures like Luke 13:23-25 also reveal that even in the end, only a few people shall be “raptured” or receive “the Final Salvation of the saints.” These scriptures also show that most people shall en-masse strive to be truly born again ONLY after the “Door” through which we enter into the redeeming Presence of God is closed on the Day Christ shall come back to take away His Church or Body of believers – the Day all saints shall be “Raptured” – the Day of the Final Salvation of the saints, (Hebrews 9:28, Lk 13:25, Matt 25:10-13). And as scriptures like Luke 13:25, Matthew 25:10-13 and Amos 8:11-13 show, doctrines teaching that after the saints are “raptured,” some “imperfect saints” who shall be left behind at the “rapture” shall be given a chance “to save themselves” are clearly heretic rather than scriptural. Thus such doctrines are not only absent from the Bible, they actually contradict scriptures teaching that those who shall desperately strive or seek to be saved after the Door of Mercy is closed on the Day Christ shall take away or “rapture” His saints shall not be given another chance to be saved despite their most desperate efforts to be saved.
Scriptures in both Testaments are thus very clear that after Christ comes to take away His saints, those who shall be left behind shall NOT and CANNOT be saved, even though they shall indeed desperately seek to have the Door or the Saving Spirit of Christ opened for them to enter in and be saved by Christ as well. This doctrine is illustrated by the parable of the ten virgins (Matt 25:1-13). Notice that the five foolish virgins who were left behind were never allowed in even thought they pleaded to be allowed in, (Matt 25:10-13). Also notice from another practical biblical allegory of this doctrine that none of the sinful people who were left out of Noah’s Ark when God closed the door of the Ark were saved from the flood, (Gen 7:16, 23, 1 Peter 3:20). Similarly therefore, as scriptures like Luke 13:25, Matthew 25:10-13 and Amos 8:11-13 clearly teach, none of the people who shall be left behind when Christ comes to rapture His saints shall be saved despite the fact that such people shall desperately seek to be saved after the Door of the saving Mercy/Grace of God is closed.
This means that we have to be truly saved right now before the Door of the saving Grace/Mercy of God is closed for us as individuals through our mortal deaths, (2 Cor 5:10, Heb 9:27, Isaiah 55:6), and/or for all unsaved mortal human beings when Christ comes to take away or to “rapture” His saints, (Lk 13:25, Amos 8:11-13, Matt 25:10-13, Isaiah 55:6). The time to get the True Salvation from God is NOW, (2 Cor 6:2). Tomorrow or later today may be too late since the Door of Mercy is also closed for us as individuals when we die without Christ, (2 Cor 5:10, Ezek 18:23, Isaiah 55:6).
Articles posted in this page are meant to help all visitors of this website not only to seek, find and retain unto death the one and ONLY True Salvation taught in the Bible, learning what constitutes the True or the biblical born again experience also challenges those who believe that they are born again to reexamine themselves to ascertain whether or not they have the One and Only True born again experience taught in the Bible – the One and ONLY True Salvation which gives us the right to enter into God’s Eternal Life Kingdom and to flee from God’s Eternal Punishment.
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